Access information about your elemental clan, life design, and soul contracts — and gain deep insight on how to navigate the path of your current life with greater wisdom and joy.

Have you marveled at the stories of medicine men and women who walk “between the worlds” and access information for healing, guidance, and wisdom?

Well, it’s time to take these remarkable beings off the pedestal and recognize that their seemingly magical qualities are also within YOU. We all have these abilities... they just need to be developed.

Yes, you have extraordinary capacities for adventures of consciousness that can reveal far more about yourself and the world. As you develop these abilities, you can open to seeing and exploring the world through shamanic eyes.

That doesn’t mean being naive or blind to hardship and suffering. In fact, you’ll likely view life’s challenges with deeper compassion, and even see THROUGH them to the higher truth that this world is infused with sacredness. Everywhere. Even in the darkest of moments that challenge us.

In fact, some of the worst things that happen in life can actually be part of a higher design — a soul intention to clear residue from other lifetimes, a plan to resolve a particularly challenged relationship, or a hardship to birth an important gift.

With shamanic eyes and access to some of this higher wisdom, you can shift from feeling victimized by life to becoming a creator of your life — consciously owning your participation in each event.

By seeing the larger forces at work — including those from your own soul design, other lifetimes, or contracts with your “soul pod” — you can relax into clear alignment with what wants to happen next.

You can also get clearer about who your real allies are, and what you have chosen to create together.

Wisdom for the Road Ahead

In the times ahead, tapping into shamanic wisdom will be essential for us all — it roots us in the earth, in nature, and in the higher dimensions of our consciousness, giving us a calm center and the capacity for clear, steady action in times of crisis. It also gives us specific skills and tools to foster individual and collective healing.

More than anything, it can provide a daily source of sustenance, guidance, and wisdom for how to navigate everyday life and be of service in healing our planet.

A shaman is a practical mystic, bridging the heavens and earth — and this ancient path of mysticism is profoundly relevant for the 21st century.

By walking the shamanic path, you become someone who is committed to unifying humanity, healing ancient rifts, and restoring wholeness within yourself, in others, and with the planet.

The challenge is that shamanism has often become distorted by people who want to use these sacred lineages for selfish purposes.

And that’s why it’s best to study shamanism in-depth with a teacher who can be trusted, one who has spent decades being mentored by master guides.

Hank Wesselman is a beloved anthropologist who can be that trusted guide for you — a practitioner who is steeped in the heights and depths of the field, drawing upon lineages from around the world while also exploring the most advanced areas of what he calls “becoming a navigator of light.”

Shamanic Wisdom Is Part of Today’s Spiritual Awakening

Hank has been influential in the rediscovery of shamanism as a major facet of the spiritual awakening that is taking place today in the Western world.

While modern spiritual traditions each have their own wisdom and beauty, ancient shamanic traditions have withstood the tests of millennia.

These shamanic lineages carry essential medicine for the 21st century, a time in which we are now called to form a global community of peace, harmony, and shared understanding.

The traditional peoples know that the world presents itself to us in two halves — a world of the seen and a world of the unseen.

The techniques that traditional shamans use for expanding our awareness provide inner explorers with an easily learned method for accessing the hidden dimensions of reality behind the world at large — and connecting with sources of wisdom and power for healing and problem solving.

In the Navigators of Light 7-month virtual training, you have the opportunity to journey live and in-depth into shamanism with Hank and a committed global community of spiritual explorers.

The Importance of a Skilled Guide

When you join this groundbreaking 7-month virtual program, you’ll be under the safe tutelage of a professional anthropologist.

Hank Wesselman has worked for more than 45 years alongside scientists investigating the mystery of human origins in the fossil beds of eastern Africa’s Great Rift Valley.

Hank has spent much of his professional life working with Indigenous tribal peoples and learning their cultures, cosmology, and spiritual practices. For 35 years, he’s studied shamanic practices, melding shamanic principles with his anthropological insights to provide us with unique avenues for exploring the further reaches of human potential.

In the early 1970s, on safari in the eroded surreal fossil beds of southwestern Ethiopia, he began to experience spontaneous visions that were strikingly like those of traditional shamans. He recorded them in his book, The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder. He has been an apprentice and teacher of shamanism ever since.

As a result of this deep study, Hank has authored nine books on shamanism, anthropology, and personal transformation, including the critically-acclaimed Spiritwalker trilogy, The Bowl of Light and Awakening to the Spirit World with Sandra Ingerman.

Hank will guide you in voyages of consciousness that can result in deep healing of unresolved emotions — and in profound openings to a more expanded understanding of reality.

These shamanic journeys can connect you with your Oversoul (and the many lifetimes of knowledge that reside there) as well as open you to greater transformation, healing, and guidance.

You’ll explore other lifetimes, soul contracts, and realms of light that you traversed before incarnating.

Hank will draw from many Indigenous lineages and traditions, particularly from Hawaiian and Polynesian teachings that he’s been entrusted with.

And he’ll show you how to put these empowering teachings into practice — expanding your capacity to seek and receive guidance from these higher realms for healing and transformation.

You’ll emerge more joyful, grounded, and connected to your Higher Self, with a deeper understanding of how to walk as a bridge between worlds.

During this powerful 7-month virtual program, you’ll:

Receive an overview of the hidden worlds of spirit and the shaman as mediator between the worlds

Develop your skill in navigating the 3 levels of the dream world: the Lower World, the dreaming of nature; the Middle World, the dreaming of humans, our everyday world, and the bardos of the afterlife; and the Upper World, the dreaming of the gods

Explore traditional shamanic ways of connecting with power

Develop greater mastery of the distinct functions of your 3 souls: the Spiritual Oversoul, the Physical Body Soul, and the Mental Conscious Soul

Reconnect with your Spirit Helper — a nature spirit that provides you with power, protection, and support

Explore the issue of created thoughtforms (egregores) as gods

Work with earthbound spirits in the Lower Worlds — the dreaming of nature

What You’ll Discover in These 7 Months

In this 7-month transformational virtual workshop, Hank will guide you through advanced shamanic practices you’ll need to successfully connect with higher realms, including explorations of elemental clans, bardos, and spiritual domains.

Each weekly teaching and training session will build harmoniously upon previous ones so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles to deepen your connection with your shamanic practice — a practice through which your life can become an incredibly advanced adventure.

The course sessions will take place weekly with integration weeks interspersed throughout the course where there will not be a live course session. You’ll receive these integration weeks to provide time and space for you to absorb the richness of the teachings and deepen the practices you’ve learned thus far so you can confidently move forward to build your complete understanding of the advanced shamanic practices Hank will be teaching.

Module 1: The Modern ShamanThe Re-emergence of an Ancestral Archetype(3 Sessions)

Session 1: Nature Mysticism & Deity Mysticism(March 1)

It’s always been understood among traditional tribal people that each new generation had the responsibility to perpetuate and refresh a continually recreated tradition, adding to and enhancing the accumulating horde of wisdom and techniques, and changing it to align with present needs.

It was in this way that this ancient spiritual path remained vital and meaningful to those who walked it. The modern shaman is the adventurer and investigator of the non-ordinary hidden worlds. This exploration includes the dreaming of nature and the archetypal mind on the planet at the beginning; the Lower Worlds of the dreaming of nature and the realms of light; and the Upper Worlds of Spirit, from which we came into physical life as embodied souls and to which we return at the end of this life.

In this session, you’ll:

View the shaman as a cosmic traveler

Gain an overview of the hidden worlds of spirit and the shaman’s role as mediator between the worlds

Explore the functions of the shaman in traditional societies

Illuminate the reappearance of the shaman in Western society

Experiential: Discover shamanic journeywork as an ancient form of meditation into the dreaming of nature.

Session 2: Nature Mysticism(March 8) (Pre-recorded)

Nature Mysticism is where the shamanic path begins, and you’ll visit this path as you begin your investigations of the “Other Worlds.” You’ll visit the Sacred Garden as an icon within the Middle World and explore the dreaming of nature at large. And, you’ll discover the Sacred Garden as your personal bardo as well as the existence of bardos as post-mortem dreams into which we travel at the death of the physical body. You’ll also discover the true definition of magic and the shaman as the true magician.

In this session, you’ll:

Discover the 4 rules by which the Sacred Garden operates and why it’s so important

Discover why everything in the Sacred Garden is symbolic

Understand how everything in the Sacred Garden can be communicated with for guidance and healing

Experience how everything in the Sacred Garden can be changed

Recognize that when you change your Sacred Garden, some aspect of yourself or your life will change in response

Experiential: Journey to your Sacred Garden as the personal place of power and healing and reconnection with your Spirit Helper — a nature spirit that provides you with power, protection, and support.

Session 3: Levels of Awareness(March 22)

Discover the three levels of awareness through which you operate all the time: your physical everyday consciousness; your mental-emotional consciousness, which also incorporates your psychic awareness; and your spiritual consciousness, which gives you access to the Spirit World, which is also the Dream World. You’ll also discover that psychic awareness and spiritual consciousness are not the same.

In this session, you’ll:

Examine the assumptions that allow us to perceive the world through the three levels of awareness

Explore the mystic Internet on the second level, through which everything everywhere and everyone is connected

Expand the perception of the timeless as you turn your awareness beyond the physical plane

Discover the cause and effect in this system

Experiential: Make connection with the matrix, the energetic web (the net of Indra), through which everything is connected, even different beings on different star systems. You’ll also make connection with a star that is attracting you and explore hybrid souls.

Module 2: The Evolution of Religion(4 sessions)

Session 1: The Evolution of Religion, Part 1Anthropological Approaches to Religion(March 29)

The concept of the Father-God icon was not part of archaic tribal belief. It didn’t appear in human cultures until we developed stratified state-level societies. By going into the most ancient roots of shamanism, you’ll better understand this as well as shamanism’s modern expression. You’ll explore the Mbuti Pygmies of the Ituri forests of the Congo and discover the Molimo Ceremony, as well as the interpretative lens of religion.

In this session, you’ll:

Explore your belief in the supernatural, the sacred, and the profane

Examine the case of Emile Durkheim

Explore ideology as a belief system with a powerful emotional appeal

Discover mythology (creation myths) and the power of symbols as the basic elements of human existence

Session 2: Animism(April 5)

Animism is the understanding that each manifested thing has its own personal, supernatural essence or soul. This means that everything everywhere is in-spirited. This week, we’ll turn towards the Universal Planetary Intelligence — Sophia — and the understanding that everything, both animate and inanimate, has its own supernatural essence or soul. You’ll explore your connections with the Sophia.

In this session, you’ll:

Work with earthbound spirits in the Lower Worlds and the dreaming of nature

Discover the elemental spirits as the archetypal mind of the planet

Discover Edward Tylor and “The Origin of Primitive Beliefs,” the beginnings of religion and the perception of the soul, and the inception of animism

Gain an Indigenous understanding of the nature of the souls of our world

Discover spirits from the Hawaiian kahuna perspective

Experiential: Connect with the spirits of nature of the Lower Worlds for guidance and spiritual evolution.

Session 3: The Evolution of Religion & Animatism 2(April 12)

This week, we’ll explore animatism more deeply, as a belief in an underlying field, energy, power, or life force, through which everyone and everything is connected, We’ll also explore belief in ancestral spirits among agriculturalists and discover key insights from many animist cultures.

In this session, you’ll discover insights from:

The Mana of the Polynesians

The Manitous of the Algonkians

Historic Christians and Pagan places of power

The Kalahari bushmen and their relationship with power

The Tonga Of Zambia and the Zelo — the Misimu

The ancestors, as well as their position in extended family systems — including yours

Experiential: Connect with an ancestral or past life ancestral spirit.

This week you’ll discover the evolution of religious beliefs in response to your perspectives of yourself and society’s. We’ll explore Polytheism, the belief in many gods and goddesses above and beyond nature; Monotheism, seen as a form of Polytheism, with a Father God on top and various rank and file angels and deified prophets and saints below them. You’ll also discover who the angelic forces really are and glimpse the worlds of the faerie folk and the Djinn.

In this session, you’ll discover:

Guy Swanson and the Birth of the Gods

Robert Bellah and the stages of religious evolution

The evolution of the Father God of Judeo-Christian ideology

The issue of created thoughtforms (egregores) as gods

The issue of negative witchcraft and sorcery with relation to egregores

Experiential: Connect with an egregore — a negative being who may be connected with you as a thoughtform, and with the Oversoul to seek protection.

Module 3: Nature MysticismAn In-depth View(5 sessions)

Session 1: The Shamanist Working With the Elemental SpiritsThe Foundation of Nature(May 10)

In dealing with the force that breathes life and wonder into our world, we connect with the life force from our star streaming downward and the life force from our planet channeled upwards. The place and function of the elementals puts us into relationship with the planetary soul. Connection with the elemental spirits is about connection with archetypal mind... the composite mind of the planet.

In this session, you’ll discover:

An overview of the elemental clans from the West African perspective

The Fire Clan people and their special qualities and abilities

How fire will appear to you in your garden

What it means to be a gatekeeper

What it means to be a gatekeeper connected with fire

The gifts conveyed through the gateway

Experiential: Connect in the garden with the spirit of fire/light and discover how fire appears to you in your garden. Connect with the Fire Clan people — in the positive and in the negative polarity. And discover which spirits work with the element of fire and the element of water as well as their function in healing work.

Many people embody water as their primary elemental. This week, we’ll explore what this means — as well as who the Water Clan people are.

In this session, you’ll:

Gain a brief overview of how we embody one of the elementals in our soul essence

Discover the elemental spirits we embody with relation to our genius

Find out how water appears to you in your garden

Discover what it means to be a gatekeeper connected with water

Explore the gifts conveyed through the gateway

Discover spirits who work with fire and spirits who work with water — and how they work together for healing

Find out how healers help others work with the symptoms of fibromyalgia

Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Water and as a gatekeeper. Connect with the Water Clan People in the positive and negative polarity.

“Facebook Live” Video Q&A Session With Hank(Tuesday, May 22)

Hank will join you via “Facebook Live” for 30 minutes to interact with you in an immediate way, answering questions that have been submitted about the course material from the preceding weeks’ class sessions. This live video connection will be easy to use and will greatly increase your learning and transformation.

This week, discover how earth will appear to you in your garden. Do you have a healing place in your garden in which or on which to create healing rituals for those who are in need of healing... and what will those healing energies involve?

In this session, you’ll discover:

What it means to be an Earth Clan person

How to connect to the gateway of earth

The gifts conveyed through this gateway

What relationship Earth Clan people have with healing work

The primary focus in Earth Clan healing work

Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Earth and the Earth Clan people in the positive and in the negative polarity and discover the spirits that work with the element of earth.

Session 4: The Stone Clan PeopleHow Will Stone Appear to You in Your Garden?(May 31)

This week, you’ll explore how stone may appear to you in your garden through meditation. We’ll also explore the essence of crystals and the qualities and abilities of the Stone Clan, which will deepen your perception of crystals you may have in your own garden as well as how you relate to them and what they can teach you.

In this session, you’ll discover:

What it means to be a member of the Stone Clan

How stone appears for you in your garden

What it means to be connected with the gateway to stone

The gifts conveyed through this gateway

The healing work of the Stone Clan

Experiential: Connect in the garden with the Spirit of Stone and the Stone Clan people in the positive and in the negative polarity and discover which spirits work with the element of stone.

Session 5: The Nature Clan(June 7) (Pre-recorded)

This week, we’ll explore what it means to be a Nature Clan member. Many of us involved in shamanic work embody nature as an elemental force. Nature is a mosaic, which is vegetative, made up of both plants and animals expressing connection, as well with all the elementals it comprises.

In this session, you’ll:

Discover the qualities and abilities connected with nature

Find out what it means to be a member of the Nature Clan

Connect with the gateway to nature

Discover the gifts conveyed through this gateway

Discover the healing work of the Nature Clan

Experiential: Connect in the garden with the spirits of nature and discover what it means to be a Nature Clan person in the positive and in the negative polarity... and as a gatekeeper. Connect with a nature spirit and the green man/green woman.

“Facebook Live” Video Q&A Session With Hank(Tuesday, June 26)

Hank will join you via “Facebook Live” for 30 minutes to interact with you in an immediate way, answering questions that have been submitted about the course material from the preceding weeks’ class sessions. This live video connection will be easy to use and will greatly increase your learning and transformation.

Module 4: Navigation of the Realms of Light(6 sessions)

Session 1: The OversoulThe Immortal Source of the Self in Each Life (June 28)

The Oversoul is the immortal source of the self in each life. This week, you’ll explore your relationship with your Oversoul, your Personal Higher

Self. And we’ll explore the Oversoul as our wise spirit teacher, as well as our three souls — the “subconscious” physical body soul, the “conscious” mental egoic soul, and the “superconscious” spiritual Oversoul.

In this session, you’ll:

Discover the relationship between the immortal heavenly Oversoul and the embodied physical soul on earth

Explore the functions of the Oversoul with relation to the physical soul

Discover the co-creative relationship between the immortal soul and the mortal soul

Know your spirit teacher as the source of all the knowledge you’ll need in each life

Discover why the spirit teacher never tells us what to do, but provides us with knowledge in response to our need to know

Discover the spirit teacher as the repository to which we withdraw at life’s end

Experiential: Connect with your spirit teacher on an issue of personal divination.

Session 2: Deity MysticismThe Shamanist as the Navigator of the Realm of Light (July 5)

When we engage with our Higher Self, we discover a new perspective on God in the new mysteries coming into being. This week, we’ll explore the Oversoul and its relationship with the Spirit Guide as its teacher. And, we’ll meet our Spirit Guide — the one to whom we are assigned at the beginning of our existence as a soul.

In this session, you’ll:

Discover higher organizing intelligences

Find out who the guides really are

Discover the guide as master teacher

Discover the angelic forces — who they are and who they are not

Explore the concept of alien intelligences

Experiential: Connect with the Oversoul and the three levels of reality: Nature Mysticism, and the Lower, Middle, and Upper Worlds. Connect with your two spirit teachers in the garden.

Session 3: The Reincarnational CycleThe Death Experience & the Transition Into the Middle World of Dream (July 12)

In traditional societies, it was always the function of the shaman to investigate the realms of experience in which we travel after the death of the physical body. The shaman would scout out the post-mortem territories and report back, preparing those who are dying for what happens next. The soul does not die... so where does it go?

This week, we’ll explore the reincarnational cycle to discover what we experience between lifetimes. We’ll also explore the passage into the light and what and where that light is. And we’ll look at post-mortem dreams, which are the bardo worlds from the Tibetan Buddhist perspective — the bardo heavens and the bardo hells.

In this session, you’ll:

View the bardos from the Tibetan perspective

Discover the bardo in the Brazilian Catholic perspective — Nosso Lar

Explore the issues of suicides and the abysmal waters

Discover your garden as your bardo when the big moment comes

Explore your life in the afterlife in the bardo

Experiential: Explore the garden as bardo and connect with deceased ancestral spirits.

Session 4: The Healing & Regeneration Center in the Bardo WorldsThe In-between State Between Life & the True Afterlife(July 19)

As we explore the nature of the after-death experience, we’ll visit various localities, including the place where souls who need restoration are taken. We’ll also observe the place in the Middle World where the monsters are taken to dilute and restore their energy.

In this session, you’ll discover:

How the healing and regeneration center appears in the realm

What is going on there for discarnate souls

What the surrounding environments are like

Who is in charge of this place and what the caretaker souls do

Experiential: Connect with and investigate the healing and regeneration center and the Middle World of Dream — the bardos.

Session 5: The Spirit Guide & the Transition of the Discarnate Soul Complex to the Upper Worlds(July 26)

What happens when the time comes to leave the Middle World of Dream — the bardo — and ascend back into the Upper Worlds? This week, we’ll discover the function of the guide in this transition as well as the rapture.

In this session, you’ll discover:

The identity of the Spirit Guide

The transition into the Upper Worlds — the realms of light

The passage of souls leaving earth

The Gathering Place

The different color hues of the gathered souls (with their guides)

Experiential: Discover the boundary between the Middle and Upper Worlds of Dream, the gathering place of incoming souls returning from the life just lived. Take an experiential journey with the Spirit Guide to the gathering place of souls.

The pod is a family of souls who have frequent and ongoing connection with each other across countless lives. The ongoing process seems to be helping each other in each soul’s evolution across time as we progress through learning our life lessons.

In this session, you’ll discover:

How the soul pod appears

That there are familiars who you recognize and who recognize you

The different soul ages reflected in your pod

The existence of earthly landmarks

The appearance of your soul pod’s locality

How neighboring soul pods appear

Experiential: Journey to a soul pod with the Spirit Guide and reconnect with a soul pod.

Module 5: The Interlife State in the Realms of Light(6 sessions)

Session 1: The Interlife StateActivities & Teachings (August 16)

This week, we’ll investigate the activities in which souls participate between lives as well as the Akashic records, where our life book is kept in the library in the Upper Worlds as a record of all our past lives and our lives to come.

In this session, you’ll explore:

Have your guide take you to the library

Discover the nature of the interlife state

Explore your relationship with your Spirit Guide

Explore the library and the archivists

Find your life book and its name

Discover fascinating details about your life before this one... and the one before that

Discover the deeper pattern that will help you understand your path through this life

Experiential: Journey to the Akashic records — the library — to access your life book in the company of your guide.

Session 2: Recap of the Akashic Records JourneyEngage in an Interdimensional Experience(August 23)

This week, we’ll engage in an Interdimensional Journey with the assistance of an explorer soul. These are highly advanced souls whose primary work is to reconnaissance to seek out training sites for younger souls — searching out localities in the other worlds for their training in various work-related activities.

In this session, you’ll explore:

The nature of explorer souls

The training of souls between lives

The higher dimensional levels

How the explorer soul appears to you

A brief educational experience to contribute to our practice as shamans

Experiential: Connect with an explorer soul to go on a brief exploration of a higher dimensional level. Is it a physical, mental, or energetic level? Is it a light dark or pastel world? How do you know?

Session 3: How Souls Come Into Being(August 30)

In the company of the Spirit Guide, you’ll journey to discover more about the place where souls are created. We’ll go as observers. Do not touch anything. Simply observe, although you can ask your guide for information. This session will reveal something about how souls come into being... and the nature of the causal realms.

In this session, you’ll explore questions such as:

Where do we go?

What is the interface between the subtle and the causal in the Upper Worlds?

The council of wise elders are the ones who debrief us when we return from a life just lived, and the ones who brief us before we come back into life for another action-packed adventure on the physical plane. They are the ones who hold our sacred contract, which details the life lessons we’ll be working on in this life.

In this session, you’ll explore questions such as:

When your guide comes to summon you to visit the council, how does the place appear?

Is your guide a member of your council?

How many are there on your council and how do they appear to you?

Do they seem familiar? Do they all speak, or does one speak for all?

How are they dressed? Are they wearing any medallions or pendants — and if so, can you describe their features?

Do they ask you about your current life?

Experiential: Visit with your council of wise elder spirits to discover more about how you’re progressing with your life lessons, and what’s written on your cosmic contract. You can ask them about how you might do better.

“Facebook Live” Video Q&A Session With Hank(Tuesday, September 11)

Hank will join you via “Facebook Live” for 30 minutes to interact with you in an immediate way, answering questions that have been submitted about the course material from the preceding weeks’ class sessions. This live video connection will be easy to use and will greatly increase your learning and transformation.

Session 5: The Presence(September 13)

Did you perceive a presence when you were before your council of wise elder spirits? If so, were they aware of it? This will be an investigative journey, in the company of an explorer soul, to gain insights and experiences in the higher dimensional level where the most creative work of the universe is accomplished.

In this session, you’ll explore questions such as:

How does the explorer soul appear to you?

Where do you go and how does this place appear to you?

Is it a light realm or dark realm? What else is there?

Do you feel the presence?

How does the explorer soul answer your questions about what you are perceiving?

Experiential: Journey with an explorer soul to the place of creation (a very high dimensional level).

Your guide to your next life awaits you. In this session, you’ll journey with your guide and identify the nature of potential future lives — the landmarks, who‘s in control and how these places and lives are organized.

In this session, you’ll explore questions such as:

What role does your council serve in the next life?

How is this place structured — is it earth-like or does it have unfamiliar landscapes?

Who else is there — and who is in charge?

Experiential: Journey to the planning and reentry center where we choose the next life and re-enter life on the physical plane.

Final Class (1 session) (October 11)

This will be an integration session to conclude the course, an open Q&A session in which you can discuss the implications of what you’ve learned with relation to your life, your spiritual practice, and your passage as a soul across eternity, growing into who and what you are becoming.

TheNavigators of Light Bonus Collection

In addition to Hank’s transformative 7-month virtual program, you’ll receive these powerful training sessions. These bonus sessions complement the course — and promise to take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.

Reflections on a Hawaiian Kahuna ElderVideo Teaching From Hank Wesselman

In this keynote speech from the 2007 International Conference on Shamanism, Hank draws upon cross cultural knowledge to explore the nature of reality and the nature of the self. This teaching will offer knowledge of an Indigenous view of reality and broaden your worldview and perspective on the self as well as deliver insights into how this information enhances the perspectives of Western Psychology.

In this talk from the 2007 International Conference on Shamanism, Hank and Jill examine the nature of health, illness and healing from the shamanic perspective, reviews the three classic causes of illness, the nature of illness intrusions and the four levels of healing. This presentation will expand your understanding of the causes of illness and how this interfaces with time-tested, transpersonal healing modalities. You’ll understand the Indigenous perspective on the causes of illness more fully and broaden your understanding of the necessary precursors for healing to take place more effectively.

Jill Kuykendal, RPT is a physical therapist and co-author with Hank Wesselman of Spirit Medicine: Healing in the Sacred Realms. A shamanic healer and teacher with Hank, she has conducted over 4000 soul retrievals.

The Shamanic Journey MethodAudio Teaching From Hank Wesselman

In this excerpt from Hank’s The Spiritwalker Program, you’ll receive foundational knowledge that is important to know about Shamanism. You’ll be invited to take a journey to your own sacred place, your sacred garden. You’ll discover a map of the inner worlds and will learn protocols on how to get really good at entering the trance state.

In these drumming tracks from Hank’s The Spiritwalker Program, you’ll be offered some advice on how to use the drumming and rattling tracks to enter the journey state. You’ll be provided with three different tracks to use for your journeywork and guide you in your shamanic fieldwork.

All I have to say is wow! I will never be the same. This class was life-changing for me. I learned so much and have so many tools for my journey. Thank you for offering this class I could not be more grateful for this experience.
— Sandra Hyde, Indian Trail, North Carolina

I am living with PTSD and the meditations and journeys have been very helpful in remembering everything has ALREADY happened. Now I know I DID send myself “back to the future” this course validated a lifelong feeling.
— Anonymous

Taking the time at least once a week to do shamanic journey work is a transformative discipline, and Hank is a great guide for doing it. He is such a master at suggesting meaningful and developmental journey topics — it made me expand my capacity for innovative work in the spirit world.
— Bebe Jo, Galveston, Texas

I really enjoyed I felt a lot more relaxed to learn and share. I realized my journeys may not be as flowery as everyone else’s but they are what works for me and Hank helped me to stop comparing myself to others. I may not use my new tools to make a living; however, I feel I can help others and myself with the knowledge, and the connection to Mother Earth, and understanding the seasonal changes that affect our lives which sometimes slide past us. I liked being around like-minded people that have the same ideals as me. The training is fantastic.
— Gitta, Sydney, Australia

Having studied Shamanism for the past 10 years — both research on my own and structured classes under the guidance of long practicing shamanic teachers — I must say Hank took this to a level of immersion so tenderly powerful there were times I wept along with (when recognizing) a truth I would humbly smile. I have utter admiration and respect for Hank’s vast knowledge and a lifetime of digging deep. This course confirmed what always felt right to me: taking my soul spirit on a blessed journey of discovery. A deep bow of gratitude to you dear teacher. Speaking truth to power is not an easy thing. Hank Wesselman stands tall.
— Linda Ocasio, Vancouver, Washington

I have reached new horizons with Navigators of Light and will pursue deepening my knowledge. I am grateful to Hank and I thank him for his fascinating course.
— Françoise, London, United Kingdom

Navigators of Light with Hank Wesselman provided me with the experiential pathways of practice to integrate this new knowledge into my everyday life, and provided me with a greater sense of what is available for all people should they choose to practice these ancient yet modern ways of perceiving.
— Anonymous

It was a top course on shamanism, everything important was included. And it can be done on internet.
— Dirk, Netherlands

I so enjoyed all of Dr. Wesselman’s knowledge experience and wisdom, with his sharing of his practice and study in this area. Hank’s very real, kind, honest, down-to-earth, approachable way of presenting was a delight to receive every week. I feel this is very specialized material, which can support and help transform our very individual and collective meaning, of our existence here, on this planet at this time.
— Lorea Chilton, British Columbia, Canada

Hank Wesselman is a great teacher, and storyteller. I love learning history from different cultures, and how perceptions and certain spiritual practices have evolved. The information he provides is rich, and accessible. His own experience truly human. I hope he teaches more courses at The Shift Network. Sincerely,
— Carol Gannon, Iowa

Join the Global Community

Navigators of Light not only offers some of the most advanced online teachings currently available, it also offers a thriving global community of support.

Join your fellow students and practitioners from across the world in the live interactive conference calls or in our online community to support and learn from each other while you learn to open your mind and expand your paradigm of reality.

This international community is at the leading edge of a global movement of people who are committed to manifesting a better world for all beings. This emerging planetary movement is rooted in an open heart and stands for the principles of mutual support, cooperation, harmony and reverence for all of life.

Here’s What You’ll Receive

Twenty-five 90-minute Class Sessions With Hank Wesselman

Experience a rare opportunity to be mentored and learn with internationally respected shamanic teacher and anthropologist Hank Wesselman — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session guides you to learn the specific skills and abilities to awaken your spiritual potential. Course sessions are on Thursdays at 5:00pm Pacific.

Three 30-minute “Facebook Live” Video Q&A Sessions

Periodically throughout the course, Hank will join you via “Facebook Live” to interact with you in an immediate way, answering questions that have been submitted about the course material from the preceding weeks’ class sessions. This live video connection will be easy to use and will greatly increase your learning and transformation.

Twenty-five Audio Recordings of Class Sessions

After each class, the audio will be available for you to download in high-quality MP3 format. You’ll never have to worry about missing a session, and you can listen anytime and anywhere — on any connected device and at your convenience.

Twenty-five PDF Transcripts of Class Sessions

In addition to the high-quality MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription in PDF format after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.

Twenty-five 30-minute Interactive Group Practice Sessions

With live class attendance, there will be a 30-minute optional interactive practice session directly following each class. You’ll be placed in an intimate group with several other participants on the conference call to interact, share, and do additional practices to help further integrate the weekly lessons. If you’re unable to attend the calls live, the Online Community group allows you to connect with each other to find alternative times to interact.

Interactive Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson

After each lesson, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each week’s lesson.

Online Community

Our exclusive Facebook online community is the perfect place to continue your discovery process after each class. Here, you can continue the discussion about deepening practices and interact with your fellow students to take your exploration to an even deeper level.

The Navigators of Light Bonus Collection

Reflections on a Hawaiian Kahuna ElderVideo Teaching From Hank Wesselman

An Unprecedented Opportunity to Join the Navigators of Light Virtual Training

We’re honored Hank Wesselman has chosen to partner with The Shift Network to offer this exclusive LIVE online training. This is a rare opportunity to interact directly with a renowned shamanic teacher whose powerful insights and pioneering work are helping us heal and awaken ourselves and our world.

Through this powerful online format, you’ll not only save time and money on workshop costs (plus travel, accommodations and meals — which would cost thousands of dollars), you’ll be able to benefit from Hank’s incredible teachings and exercises from the comfort of your home — at your own pace!

If you are serious about expanding your capacity for awareness, healing, and compassion through ancient and traditional shamanic practices, then you owe it to yourself, your loved ones and our world to take this one-of-a-kind training.

If you’re ready to take the next step in evolving yourself, click the register button below to reserve your space now.

More Praise for Hank Wesselman...

“A template for a new mythos...”

Drawing on a lifetime of scholarship and deep shamanic practice, invites us to follow a path of direct experience of the sacred... Boldly, he offers a template for a new mythos, affirming that the greater powers do not require us to follow hand-me-down beliefs, but instead to become co-creators.
— Robert Moss, bestselling author of Conscious Dreaming

“Not only survive, but thrive”

Dr. Hank Wesselman’s vision is so important. personal experiences and vision transcend the suffocating limitations of materialism that now threaten our future... If we respond to Dr. Wesselman’s message, we humans will not only survive, but thrive.
— Larry Dossey, MD, Author of One Mind: How Our Individual Mind Is Part of a Greater Consciousness and Why It Matters

“Combines the genius and discipline of scholarly explorations...”

Prying open the doors of perception of the inner worlds, Dr. Hank Wesselman nimbly gifts us with glimpses into the panorama of the great mystery. As a scientist, shamanist, and seer, he combines the genius and discipline of scholarly explorations found in the contributions of Joseph Campbell, Lewis Hyde, Michael Harner, and Vine Deloria...
— Nan Moss, shamanic teacher and practitioner and author of Weather Shamanism: Harmonizing Our Connection with the Elements

“Perceive our own personal power through direct revelation...”

Hank prompts us to perceive our own personal power through direct revelation and through our relationship with nature...
— Itzhak Beery, Author of The Gift of Shamanism

Hank’s teachings are like pieces of life’s puzzle that have been waiting for me. Like being tapped on the shoulder, “Remember me?” Serious, deep, thought provoking, amazing moments as well as light, laughter, joy, dancing, singing... with room to jump up and down and just be.
— Bea, Mountain View, California

Hank Wesselman is a great teacher and guide in this paradigm shifting work. Weekly experiential work changes the course of one’s conscious awareness. Support and nudging towards self revelation is offered in a subtle but brilliant articulation of the mystical path. Can’t wait for more.
— April Lewis, Portland, Oregon

This is a difficult time for so many of us. For me, taking this course has been a way of keeping me in the positive polarity and helping me to focus on interweaving my spiritual practice with my daily life.
— Anonymous

Excellent course, amazing information — it was a blessing to have Hank Wesselman as an instructor. Loved the shamanic journeys. Would highly recommend this course. — Charlotte, Santa Rosa, California

Excellent review of the journey process with actual session has really deepened my appreciation for access to those other worlds. Using this to get answers was an amazing process to learn as well.
— Earl Commanda, Ontario, Canada

About Hank Wesselman

Anthropologist Hank Wesselman, PhD, is author of the bestselling Spiritwalker trilogy: Spiritwalker: Messages from the Future; Medicinemaker: Mystic Encounters on the Shaman’s Path; and Visionseeker: Shared Wisdom from the Place of Refuge. He is also author of The Re-Enchantment: A Shamanic Path to a Life of Wonder; The Journey to the Sacred Garden; The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman; and co-author of Awakening to the Spirit World (with Sandra Ingerman); and Spirit Medicine (with Jill Kuykendall).

Hank earned his doctoral degree in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley. Since 1971, he has worked with an international group of scientists, exploring East Africa’s Great Rift Valley in search of answers to the mystery of human origins.

He enjoys sharing his knowledge of shamanism and anthropology in workshops worldwide. In Hank’s own words: “My presentations and workshops draw on my knowledge as an anthropologist and are designed to educate and encourage individuals to rediscover the visionary within themselves. I utilize the ancient, time-tested ways of the mystic to facilitate each person’s process and to reconnect them to their inner sources of wisdom, power, and healing.”

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What is a virtual course? A: It’s a great way to engage live teachings and each other from the comfort of your home! All you need is a phone line (or an equivalent voice service). If there is more than one person in your household taking the course, you will each need your own line. We use Zoom to make it just like an in-person event, where you can ask questions, participate in groups, and deepen your exploration of the course themes.

Please note that dialing Zoom from your phone is a regular toll call; your telephone service provider will charge you according to your existing long-distance calling plan. International access numbers are available. We also offer a webcast which is free to use from anywhere in the world.

I have never participated before in an online course. The packaging, presentation, inclusion and Facebook postings created a wonderful, safe cocoon to participate. I haven’t seen a course so well put together ever — not in all the years of taking college classes — and I had my doubts about doing an online course. The wealth of organization and ease of learning materials and support made this fun as well. – Claudia F., Medford, MA

Q: Can I get benefit from the course if I miss the live classes?A: Absolutely! You can download the recordings and transcripts of all course sessions from our online media archive, so you never need to worry about missing live calls. You can also engage the full community and leaders on our private community website.

Q: Can you tell me about the Private Course Group?A: We will have a private community group for all course participants on Facebook that will support you in making connections with others, sharing insights, engaging in discussions, completing homework assignments and exchanging information about events and other activities that can supplement your transformational journey. You’ll have the ability to share your experiences, projects and growth throughout the Course.

Q: Are there scholarships available for this Training?A: Yes, we always make a certain percentage of spaces available for partial scholarships, giving preference to those in developing countries or doing important but underpaid work to which they can apply the training material immediately. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please review our guidelines, which include a link to our online application form.

Q: What is your refund policy?
A: Your satisfaction with The Shift Network and this course is our highest priority! We offer a satisfaction guarantee so that you can sample the course risk-free. The deadline to receive a full refund is March 22, 2018. To request a refund, please click on this refund request form and submit your request. Your refund will be processed within five business days and we’ll send you an email confirming your refund. However, we’d love to have a chance to address and resolve your concerns first. If there is something we can assist you with, please email us at support@theshiftnetwork.com and we’ll be happy to help! (No refund requests accepted after the above date or with scholarship awards.)

Q: How can I reach Customer Support?A: Please visit our Customer Support Center, where you should be able to find the answer to your question or the solution to a problem. And if you can’t, you can submit an online request form and we’ll get right back to you.